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		That three-year decline in 2000-2002 was the longest string of losses in the MSCI World Index since the introduction of the index in 1970.
		In addition, the total return from the MSCI World Index at the end of 2003 was still negative at —0.47% on a 5-year horizon.
		The MSCI Far East index rallied 34% as the Far East countries were all boosted by the sharp growth in China.
	www.crbtrader.com /fund/articles/stocksww.asp (1127 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		According to data from early reporting funds, the MSCI Hedge Fund Composite Index was up 1.9% for the month of November and 6.3% for the year-to-date through November based on data from 64% of constituent funds.
		The MSCI Relative Value Index gained 0.5% for the month of November and 2.0% for the year at the end of November based on reports from 63% of funds.
		The MSCI Security Selection Index, for which 64% of constituent funds have so far reported results, gained 2.1% for the month of November and 8.3% for the year at the end of November.
	www.hedgefundsworld.com /tmpl/article.aspx?V&ID=21997 (427 words)

	The FTSE Multinationals Index Series comprises smaller sub-indices separated by four economic regions: North America, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Financial Times/Standard and Poor’s Actuaries World Indices (FT/S andP).
		MSCI addresses the cross-ownership issue in a different manner: It simply does not include a stock at all if the committee determines that its cross-ownership with another index stock is so great that its inclusion would have the effect of double-counting.
		Therefore, MSCI is currently the only family of institutional indices that provides the opportunity to evaluate historical market behavior in and out of market cycles, although both the BMI and the DLGI report that they have ongoing projects to extend their historical data through algorithmically executed backcasting of relevant data.
	www.qedinternational.com /secondedition.html (8780 words)

	MSCI Small Cap Index Series November 2005 Semi-Annual Index Review - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MSCI Barra, a leading provider of benchmark indices and risk management analytics products, announced today changes to the MSCI Small Cap Index Series that will be effective as of the close of November 30, 2005.
		MSCI then selects the most liquid securities relative to their market capitalization, and targets for index inclusion 40% of the full universe within each industry group, within each country.
		MSCI Barra is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world.
	www.forbes.com /businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2005/11/16/businesswire20051116006119r1.html (1050 words)

	GARP : Risk News : Risk eNews Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MSCI said that there would be 278 additions to, and 30 deletions from, the MSCI ACWI Index, 573 changes in Foreign Inclusion Factors (FIFs) and 752 updates in number of shares as at the close of May 31, 2005, as a result of its annual review.
		MSCI decides membership and weightings for its indices based on free-float, or the percentage of shares available to investors.
		MSCI adds, or subtracts, members to ensure that 85 percent of the free-float available within each industry is included in its country benchmarks.
	www.garp.com /risknews/newsfeed.asp?Category=9&MyFile=2005-05-16-10798.html (340 words)

	Corporate Governance in a Disparate World -> Dr Madhav Mehra
		Among the major countries that are tracked by the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) indices, shares in MSCI Thailand have clocked returns of 134% while those in Turkey have gained 122% in 2003.
		World's AIDS graph shows a steady increase of the number of deaths on account of AIDS.
		It is dangerous to focus on profits alone in a world characterised by grueling poverty and squalor and build islands of opulence and extravagance.
	www.wef.org.uk /madhavmehra/cgdw.htm (3580 words)

	Investment Models (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MSCI P/Es based on last 12 months’ earnings.
		As the left-hand chart shows, in general the model P/E has closely tracked the actual trailing P/E of the MSCI World Index.
		This suggests that both downside and upside risk for 2001 is limited, though our model tends to reach undervalued levels after periods of overvaluation.
	exchange.diamondcluster.com /Archives/Summit/200103/Mar01Pelosky/tsld017.htm (122 words)

	GreenBiz.com: Printer-friendly version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Global 100 is a listing of the 100 large blue chip companies around the world that demonstrated the strongest sustainability performance among their peers.
		The study back-tested the hypothetical portfolio against the MSCI World Index and found that, after taking account of total return and rebalancing the portfolio quarterly to avoid excessive stock weights, the Global 100 outperformed the broader index by 7.11% over the five year period.
		The top 100 sustainability performers in The Global 100 are chosen from the universe of publicly-traded companies on the MSCI World Index, based on research and analysis by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors.
	www.greenbiz.com /news/printer.cfm?NewsID=30243 (416 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe
		MSCI World, a global benchmark calculated in dollars, rose 10 percent for the quarter through yesterday.
		The MSCI World Energy Index rose 5.5 percent in the quarter, the second-worst showing among the 10 groups.
		Globally, stocks were able to build on their rally last year, when the MSCI World had the biggest gain since 1986.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aK7MGVSIU9w8&refer=europe (1420 words)

	Global Investment Managers See Positive 2006 Equities Performance, but Returns not Expected to Match 2005 in Most Major ...
		Index Definitions The MSCI World Index(SM) is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure global developed market equity performance.
		The MSCI Emerging Markets Index(SM) is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets.
		MSCI Index (R), (TM), (SM) are the property of Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. or its affiliates.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-09-2006/0004244787&EDATE= (1360 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Market Insight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The MSCI World Small-Cap Index, whose members are valued at $200 million to $1.5 billion, climbed 56 percent.
		The MSCI World index had fallen for the previous three years, and had lost half of its value during the decline.
		The MSCI World Materials Index, including producers of cement, chemicals, lumber and metals, was the best second-half performer with a 36 percent advance.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000173&sid=aic10pVWPKMc&refer=market_insight (1277 words)

	Strategy Detail - MSCI Kokusai (World ex Japan) Index
		The MSCI Kokusai (World ex Japan) Index Strategy is an index strategy designed to match the return of the MSCI Kokusai (World ex Japan) Index.
		The MSCI Kokusai (World ex Japan) Index consists of over 1,200 stocks in 22 countries outside Japan and represents approximately 60% of the total market capitalization in those countries.
		SSgA's MSCI Kokusai (World ex Japan) Index Strategy employs an index replication approach to construct a portfolio whose return closely matches that of the index.
	www.ssga.com /weblogic/strategyDetailsPublic?pop=true&st=/indx_eqt_strg_MSKO.jsp (196 words)

	Praesideo: Home
		Alfred Winslow Jones is credited with creating the world's first hedge fund in 1949.
		He is the namesake to what is known as the Jones-model hedge fund.
		There were as few as 500 known hedge funds in the world in 1991 when Praesideo launched its first fund.
	www.praesideo.com (263 words)

	Bloomberg.com: U.S.
		The rally failed to boost MSCI World, which showed a loss of 1.9 percent through yesterday and ended the quarter with its longest string of declines since September 1990.
		The groups' MSCI World indexes lost 7.5 percent and 6.6 percent, respectively.
		MSCI World, consisting of stocks traded in 23 countries, fell every day from March 9 through yesterday.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aykEjBqaiYn4 (1368 words)

	Alternative Investment & Hedge Fund News. News on hedge funds, hedge fund of funds, private equity and other ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For instance, the MSCI World Equity Index fell 4.2% and the CRB-Reuters Commodity Index was up a mere 7 basis points, while the market for long-term bond...
		MSCI Barra's Hedge Invest Index, composed of 130 funds, was up 1.57% for April.
		The benchmark MSCI Hedge Invest Systematic Trading Index, which is composed of 25 statistical arbitrage funds, has posted better returns lately, according to...
	www.iialternatives.com /?SearchStr=MSCI&SM=EXACT&DatePeriod=0&OB=D&Catalog=AIN&page=11 (479 words)

	The Results: The Numbers Speak for Themselves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Templeton Growth Fund's benchmark, the MSCI World Index, is representative of global stock market performance.
		Performance of the MSCI World Index is shown starting on 1/1/70 because that was the date of its inception.
		MSCI World Index is unmanaged and includes reinvested dividends.
	www.franklintempleton.com /retail/jsp_cm/sales_tools/feature_prog/templeton_growth_fund/pub/templeton_growth_results.jsp (533 words)

	World's 100 Most Sustainable Companies Announced at Davos: Benchmarking Study Showcases Sustainability Premium
		DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2006 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World listing was released today in Davos, Switzerland by Corporate Knights and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, along with a benchmarking study demonstrating Global 100 outperformance of 7.11% against the MSCI World Index.
		Launched in 2005, the annual Global 100 is announced each year at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
		Corporate Knights Inc. Founded in 2002, Corporate Knights Inc. is an independent Canadian-based media company that publishes the world's largest circulation magazine with an explicit focus on corporate responsibility.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-27-2006/0004269297&EDATE= (585 words)

	Investing: Risk Management
		That is to say, when the S&P 500 zigs, world indices, such as the MSCI World (the popular Morgan Stanley Index), no longer zag.
		In the most recent three-year period, the highest correlations were the MSCI World (0.97) and the Russell 1000 Growth (0.96).
		The MSCI EAFE and World indexes have showed the greatest increase in correlation between the three- and 10-year periods while the Russell 1000 Value index's correlation has actually declined.
	registeredrep.com /mag/finance_dampen_risk_stay (851 words)

	Risky business, Managing risk and creating value in a volatile world - Deloitte & Touche LLP
		In the MSCI World Index, only a quarter of the companies experienced a one-day loss of that magnitude.
		Looking at the odds for individual firms, relative to their global counterparts, FTSE 100 firms were 21 percent more likely to suffer a large one-day loss; FTSE 250 firms were 35 percent more likely.
		Only 41 percent of UK firms that experienced a major value loss recovered their value within a year, compared to 50% of companies in the MSCI World Index".
	www.deloitte.com /dtt/article/0,1002,sid=2855&cid=93394,00.html (434 words)

	Oakmark Int'l Fund Semi-Annual Report
		The MSCI EAFE Index refers to Europe, Asia and the Far East and includes 20 country sub-indexes.
		This compares to the MSCI World ex-U.S. Index which was up.6%.
		Of course the dark side of this rush to embrace the future is that a financial bubble has developed in public companies identified with the internet.
	www.oakmark.com /reports/2000_q2/oakix.htm (1155 words)

	Bloomberg.com: News & Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A sub-index of consumer-related stocks on the MSCI emerging-markets index, which is denominated in dollars, has risen 9.9 percent this quarter after a 1.1 percent drop in the first half of 2005.
		Energy-related shares are the biggest gainers on the MSCI index this quarter, advancing 15 percent.
		China, the world's biggest maker and consumer of steel, imported 150 million tons of iron ore -- used in steelmaking --in the first seven months of 2005, up 32 percent from a year earlier, according to customs figures.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=a5RKajDCV6x8 (1320 words)

	Fidelity.ca: Funds & services->Fidelity funds->Funds benchmarks
		The MSCI All Country World Free index represents both developed and emerging markets around the world and consists of over 2,200 securities in 51 countries.
		Morgan Stanley Capital International Europe, Australasia, and Far East (MSCI EAFE) index, which represents the MSCI World index, less the U.S. and Canadian markets.
		The MSCI EAFE index contains a representative sampling of over 900 small-, medium-, and large-capitalization stocks from 21 developed European, Australasian, and Far East countries.
	www.fidelity.ca /fidelity/cda/live/0,,2896,00.html?strmid=54 (1005 words)

	American Century \| Why Own Global Growth? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Considering that more than two-thirds of the world’s publicly traded companies are overseas, global investing gives your portfolio exposure to the largest pool of investment options.
		Historically the world’s economies have not moved in tandem.
		The MSCI World Free Index represents the performance of stocks in developed market countries (including the United States) that are available for purchase by global investors.
	www.americancentury.com /funds/why_invest.jsp?fund=102 (486 words)

	The Global 100: Most Sustainable Corporations in the World
		The aim of the Global 100 is to raise questions about the role of the corporation in society; to add momentum to sincere corporate sustainability initiatives; and to help the public see corporations in a broader sense.
		For the Global 100, Innovest selected 100 leaders from the MSCI World Index that demonstrate exceptional capacity to address their sector-specific environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities.
		Because it is one of the most widely used and recognized equity indices in the world, it provides the necessary diversity in terms of company size, geographic location and industry sector representation to minimize various biases, and it is the mainstream index which overlaps most with Innovest’s own research univers.
	www.global100.org /faq.asp (1110 words)

	THE OAKMARK INTERNATIONAL SMALL CAP FUND Third Quarter Report
		Geographically, the parts of the world where the out-performance has been most pronounced are the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
		You may remember all of the trend-extrapolating pundits warning that the USD was in a permanent bear market, that it was losing its reserve currency status, that it was going to parity with the Deutsche mark, et cetera, et cetera.
		For the first six months of 2001 it returned 7% compared to a loss in the Lipper International Small Cap Average of 8% and a decline in the MSCI World ex U.S. index of 15%.
	www.oakmark.com /reports/2001_q3/oakex.htm (978 words)

	Investor's Business Daily: Investor Resources
		The year started very strongly for stocks, with the MSCI World Index gaining 6.6%.
		Our research shows 15 first quarter returns greater than 4% for the MSCI World Index since its inception in 1969.
		Year-to-date returns as of 3/31/06: MSCI World Index 6.6%.
	www.investors.com /resources/ir10.asp (865 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Paladin added to MSCI World Standard Index Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MSCI is a leading global benchmark provider of equity (international and US), fixed income and hedge fund indices.
		MSCI provides global equity indices, which, over the last 30+ years, have become the most widely used international equity benchmarks by institutional investors.
		With the Langer Heinrich Uranium Project in Namibia currently under construction, the Kayelekera Project in Malawi undergoing a Bankable Feasibility Study, Paladin is well placed to become a major supplier of primary uranium to world markets.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=132196&tsource=3 (265 words)

	BIER Research: Historical and Expected Returns
		Recently Nobel’s stock has advanced significantly outperforming MSCI Sweden, the World, and the EAFE indexes in 2000 and in 2001 (year-to-date, as of 11/9/2001).
		We derived the expected rate of return from the CAPM model; however, we have little confidence in the estimates we obtained.
		We have regressed Nobel’s monthly returns against the MSCI World, MSCI Sweden, and MSCI Healthcare indices, but we think that all three of derived betas are meaningless because their explanatory power (r
	www.faculty.uaf.edu /ffkcc/BIER/returns.htm (254 words)

	Glossary
		The Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) World Health Care Index is a capitalization weighted index that monitors the performance of health care stocks from around the world.
		The Morgan Stanley Capital International is a market capitalization-weighted index that measures the performance of stock markets in 22 countries.
		The Morgan Stanley Capital International World Index minus the U.S. is a market capitalization-weighted index that measures the performance of stock markets in 21 countries outside the U.S. Back to top
	www.alliancebernstein.com /DomesticPortal/Glossary.aspx?nid=5422<r=M (946 words)

	Performance
		Since current performance may be higher or lower than the most recent month-end performance data presented, please call (888) 636-8835 for additional performance information.
		The Morgan Stanley Capital International Emerging Markets Growth Index (MSCI Emerging Markets Growth Index) is a subset of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and includes only the MSCI Emerging Markets Index stocks which are categorized as growth stocks. The index was added in August 2005 as a comparison to the Fund's growth-oriented investment style.
		Please consider the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses of the Funds carefully prior to investing.
	www.driehaus.com /Mutual/Performance.cfm (548 words)

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